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Originally Posted by Stephen Fox
I once dropped a coffee on a stone floor in a work restroom when i was younger. I instantly became very unpopular as the coffee shot from floor to ceiling. I have no idea where the energy comes from to propel liquid in this manner maybe resonance or something but the energy from a pellet could not send a body of liquid high in the air.
Anyway when I left that company seven years ago my coffee stain was still on the ceiling!
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Was it in a Pyrex mug? They are made of toughened glass which allows them to take a lot of heat and impact abuse. But they appear to have a huge amount of stress within the material and when they do break they almost explode when the potential energy is released.